Watching Dube and Davison, I'm always really frightened for them. The size differential causes their lifts to be extremely precarious. If they are even slightly out of alignment I can imagine disaster.

Their lifts while they cover a lot of ice- Davison's feet always seem to be working so hard to keep balanced- they flick up in a scary way that always makes me feel that he's about to lose his footing. And that throw triple twist lift the force of her coming down and his slight build that looks like he would not be able to absorb her impact if she didn't land exactly so.

But yet they seem to get through ok- but I don't feel confident watching them skate.

D&D - much better than at TEB for me, lots more conviction and attack. Obviously some glitches but there was an "overall" flow instead of that in and out thing they do.

I usually feel secure with Bryce in lifts, although Jessica can come down heavy. She also came out of a ds heavily (setting her free foot down heavily) in the lp at TEB. Not this time. Her flow from the exit of an element or sequence into the beginning of the next was so much better here IMO. Something happened with the back half of the final spin - don't know what but I was like - okay, what happened there? Bryce seemed to be mentioning it in KissNCry but I couldn't get what he was saying.

Watching Dube and Davison, I'm always really frightened for them. The size differential causes their lifts to be extremely precarious. If they are even slightly out of alignment I can imagine disaster.

Their lifts while they cover a lot of ice- Davison's feet always seem to be working so hard to keep balanced- they flick up in a scary way that always makes me feel that he's about to lose his footing. And that throw triple twist lift the force of her coming down and his slight build that looks like he would not be able to absorb her impact if she didn't land exactly so.

You are talking as if she is like 50 pounds overweight for crying out loud!! She is 5'2 and at most 110 pounds. He is 5'10.

That was the best triple twist I have seem them do. The also have some of the best lifts in the world, and Bryce is known for his great footwork, FYI.

Got Radio Canada to work on FF the second try. I'm not loving M/T's program and the Love Story-Cinema Paradiso-Love Story mix was jarring. The pair spin seemed to go on forever. They can do better than this.

I think had it been singles, they would've let it go. Anyway, mostly clean skate that should easily surpass D/D (the deduction should be counteracted by the "wow" factor of overcoming pause). D/D were cleaner here than at TEB, but the mistakes here were more costly (the singling of the axel, for example). It's worth mentioning that D/D's TES are behind the other two Canadian teams.

LP Grand Canyon Suite
Good speed.
Two footed landing on 3S and 3t2t
Two footed 3flip throw
3S throw good
Start of spin on second foot off, regrouped
Strong lifts
Lots of features on death spiral to end
This has the promise of a very good program.

Score 104.43 into 1st

6 Jessica DUBE / Bryce DAVISON CAN 3 57.90
LP The way we were

Stunning looking people in amazingly boring mushroom colored costumes, hers with a cowl neckline skating to treacle.
Triple twist crashy
2A + 2A seq. Off, and did he single one of them. Yes on replay.
3S she has 2 hands down, he stumbles
Spins OK
3 flip throw OK
3 loop throw 2 hands down
Not a great outing
Skated with power, though

Score: 109.03

7 Maria MUKHORTOVA / Maxim TRANKOV RUS 2 65.80

LP Love Story
More treacle.
Pink and gray this time. And she has on opaque white tights And his pants are way baggy double

His pant strap broke 3 minutes to repair
They restart
spiral OK a little slow
Both throws good-3S landing pitches a bit onto the toe, but she stands it
Spins off
Very neat pair spin variation entry
2 lifts late in the program for the bonus

Dube/Davison were held up by PCS (surprise, surprise). I would have put them behind L/H. Shame about the stop for M/T but it didnt affect them much which says a lot about how they've progressed in terms of dealing with competition nerves. Yay for them.

ON a shallow note, how much will it cost for the hosts to buy 2 more chairs for the coach to sit with their pupils at the kiss & cry ???